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01 Jun 2016 Inez Myin-Germeys: “The psychiatrist’s couch is no longer enough” (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
At the University of Maastricht, Flemish psychologist Inez Myin-Germeys was the first professor in 'ecological psychiatry' ... 'Psychiatry needs to open the black box of everyday life.'. In research into psychological disorders, we have only just come out of the age of biological psychiatry, Myin-Germeys explains ... Together with a number of psychiatrists, she will develop the KU Leuven Centre for Contextual Psychiatry....

Stress affects performance (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV). Hormone causes decline in cognition after social stress ... How does stress influence our cognitive performance? This is an issue scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have been dealing with ... Therefore, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry tested what exactly happens in the brain during such stressful periods in mice ... AS/MS/HR....

Perth child psychiatrist 'caught filming boy' in Canadian toilets

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Jun 2016
An exclusive Perth child psychiatrist has been arrested after allegedly using a mobile phone to film a young boy in a shopping centre toilet in Canada ... was denied bail ... His brochure says he graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Western Australia, was awarded the Boots Prize and CB Kidd Memorial Prize in Psychiatry, and has completed advanced training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ... ....

Electronic-cigarettes don’t actually help in kicking the butt

Edit Deccan Chronicle 01 Jun 2016
Bengaluru. Over the past few years, the demand for E- cigarettes kept growing until in early 2014 they were a booming industry with 466 brands and 7764 unique flavours. Currently they are easily available over the internet ... But generally people do not use it for more than three weeks,” says Dr Naveen Jayaram, attending Consultant, Psychiatry Sakra World Hospital. He has witnessed hundreds of patients addicted to cigarette smoking ... ....

New insight into the impact of stress on the brain (Barchester Healthcare Limited)

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(Source. Barchester Healthcare Limited). New research has shown that experiencing chronic stress can actually change the structure of the brain ... Published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, the study found that these changes - which can contribute to disorders such as anxiety and depression - can be prevented with 'a promising potential antidepressant' that responds quickly ... Find the nearest Barchester nursing home ... (noodl. 33892288) ....

Daniel Alfredsson to receive honorary Doctor of Laws degree

Edit Canada Dot Com 01 Jun 2016
Soon, you can call him Dr. Alfie ... The degree gives Alfredsson the right to the honorific of "doctor." ... Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife Sharon will be recognized at the June 7 morning ceremony, both for their service to Canada at Rideau Hall and for their careers — Sharon for rehabilitation science, child psychiatry and as an author, and David for his work as an educator and post-secondary leader ... ....

Not quite PTSD: Still quite a mental health problem (Yale University)

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(Source. Yale University). By Bill Hathaway. June 1, 2016. At least one in five U.S ... The study of 1,484 U.S. veterans, published June 1 in the journal World Psychiatry, highlights the scope and burden of sub-threshold PTSD, or a collection of symptoms that aren't complete enough or severe enough to earn a PTSD diagnosis ... Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD and senior author of the study ... 3.4%) ... (noodl. 33898512) ....

Kyoto University Hospital dispatches DMAT, DPAT, and relief squads to Kumamoto (16 April-18 May 2016) (Kyoto University)

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(Source. Kyoto University). Kyoto University Hospital dispatched its Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) to Kumamoto from 16 through 20 April at the request of the Kyoto Prefectural Government, in order to provide assistance to people stricken by the recent earthquakes ... Medical Doctor Kosuke Tsurumi of the Psychiatric Day Care Unit, Psychiatric Social Worker Yuko Shimada of the Department of Psychiatry, and Nurse Fumiya Kume ... (noodl....

UK Advising Network Presents 7th Day of Service in the Bluegrass (University of Kentucky)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Kentucky). LEXINGTON, Ky ... In the afternoon, the group headed to their volunteer sites ... 'The Day of Service is a long-standing tradition of ours ... At the house, families can enjoy ... The Cooper Division, located at 1101 Veterans Dr., offers emergency care, inpatient medical-surgical care, acute psychiatry, intensive and progressive care units, ambulatory surgery, medicine and surgery specialty clinics, and hemodialysis....

Hot Off the Presses

Edit The Scientist 01 Jun 2016
Beyond Biocentrism. Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death. Robert Lanza with Bob Berman. BenBella Books, May 2016 ... The Sting of the Wild. The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science. Justin O. Schmidt. Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2016 ... “Wham, an ant stung me ... Brown Medical School psychiatry professor Peter Kramer has been writing and thinking about depression and antidepressants for a long time....

RubiconMD Secures $4.0 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Primary Care Access to Relevant Specialty Expertise

Edit Yahoo Daily News 01 Jun 2016
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--. RubiconMD, the leader in specialty eConsults, announced the closing of their $4.0 million Series A financing ... This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here ... Primary care providers using RubiconMD can easily upload relevant information, such as images, labs and studies, and then ask a question in a particular specialty, such as dermatology, orthopedic surgery, or psychiatry ... Media ... ....

The teenage brain on social media (UCLA Health System)

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(Source. UCLA Health System) ... The 32 teenagers, ages 13-18, were told they were participating in a small social network similar to the popular photo-sharing app, Instagram ... In the teenagers' real lives, the influence of their friends is likely to be even more dramatic, said Mirella Dapretto, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA's Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Lauren Sherman/UCLA ... (noodl....

Democracy and accountability under attack in today’s Ghana

Edit Modern Ghana 01 Jun 2016
By Thaddeus Ulzen, Dr. We have got to be better than this. By 2008 we had the distinction of being a country with one of the highest indices of press freedom in the world. Today, we are discussing the possibility of social media being blocked for the upcoming elections ... This "discussion" has no standing ... T ... Manus Ulzen is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Alabama and Author of” Java Hill ... ....
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